Zenarkin had been established not long after the Great World War. Rumor had it that the city was once known as Manhattan, but it soon fell into ruin and the aliens took over and rebuilt itthemselves. They’d taken the old cobblestone streets and paved over them. They’d built the buildings taller, but they didn’t stop there. They dug down deep into the earth and established a central breeding colony to ensure their continued survival. They’d flourished. Every day, more aliens walked Earth. At the same time, humans struggled to survive. We didn’t have access to the same things they did. No medical care. No electricity. No dependable food sources. Human civilization had resorted to something of a dark age since the rise of our experimental mistakes.
And now one of them was taking me deep into his territory.
I stared down at the floor, trying to come to terms with what I was about to see.
Sometimes at night, my fellow soldiers had told stories of the alien city. They spoke of the subservience of humans there, that the aliens sometimes made the men fight in gladiatorial games and that they made the women do far more shameful things while in the company of others. Rumor had it they made sex into a game.
They didn’t need human women to procreate, but that didn’t mean that they turned away from the use of their bodies. To them, a woman was nothing more than a possession, a vessel that they might decide to use if it tickled their fancy at the time.
A tight sheath to sink their cocks into whenever they wanted.
I jerked my gaze back to him. Would he do that? Was he just taking me so that he could bend me over and use my pussy as he saw fit?
My inner walls fluttered with excitement at the thought, and I gritted my teeth, trying to ignore the wanton betrayal of my own body.
“You’re scared, aren’t you?” he asked.
“No,” I lied.
To his credit, he didn’t point out my falsehood. He just let it go. I licked my lips and stared down at the floor. I felt uneasy about all of this.
“Why didn’t you just kill me? Wouldn’t it have been easier for you?” I asked.
“To be honest, I don’t know, Raiza. You are a curious little thing and I want to understand you,” he mused softly. Feeling a bit bolder, I lifted my gaze and looked back at him.
“My comrades would have expected me to kill you. If they’d been there, I probably would have, but they weren’t, were they?” he continued gently.
“No.”
“Your fellow soldiers weren’t there either. They didn’t see what you did after you shot, slashed, and injected me with whatever that terrible concoction was,” he continued.
I shook my head.
“What would they have done to you?” he asked cautiously.
I chewed the inside of my cheek. “I’m not sure, but they would have probably killed me. We’ve never had anyone do anything like I did,” I answered meekly.
“Is that right…” he replied thoughtfully.
I didn’t like it. I turned my head and stared out the window. The big green trees towered below, their leaves just beginning to change color with the advance of fall. The yellow, orange, and red foliage peeked through the green leaves, bright enough to paint a beautiful picture beneath me. It was sort of mesmerizing in a way.
Seeing the landscape like this was so very different from experiencing it on the ground. I recognized several rivers, the sandy rock beaches some of my favorite places to let off steam in the hot days of summer. Beneath the trees, I could see some dilapidated houses and buildings down below and it almost seemed like Earth was devouring them from below. Grasses and vines swallowed them whole, breaking them down with every passing second.
In another hundred years, there might not be much left at all. Would humans still exist then? Would they know that’s what homes used to look like in the past?
“Why do you look sad, little one?” Talyn asked gently.
I shook my head and painted on a smile. I wasn’t going to tell him the direction of my thoughts. He was nothing more to me than my captor and he would never be.
“It’s nothing,” I replied. I didn’t look back at him. I didn’t want to know if he believed me or not.
As if he sensed my disquiet, he stood up and walked over to me. I started when his hand grazed against my shoulder, and I froze when it continued up the expanse of my throat. The warmth of his fingers against my skin was gentle and hypnotizing in a way. My pussy clenched anxiously, and I did my best to blatantly ignore it.
I continued to look out the window as we flew. As more time passed, it became clear that we were leaving the wild lands where humans struggled to survive. We were entering alien territory, where they were flourishing. The difference between the two was jarring.
The first indication I noticed was electricity. Lights burned bright in the setting sun, powering on one by one. There were long runways and a massive plain of airships meant to travel the world. I wondered if any of them were designed with the sole intention of traveling into space.
I’d heard gossip that some places were capable of that. I’d even heard that they’d taken over the International Space Station a long time ago, but I couldn’t be certain of any of it. All my life, I’d lived in the woods, hiding from the enemy, and surviving off the remains of what humans left behind more than a hundred years ago.
